Nick Nurse Quotes

Nick Nurse

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 24, 1967

I said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.

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I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

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I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, 'Oh my God, they gave me the job.'

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Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.

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I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

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Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

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You've got to coach with what you have and who's available.

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I read a couple books on democratic coaching.

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Most of the places I came from, you gotta do a lot of gunslinging or coaching by the seat of your pants.

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Predictability can eventually be defended.

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I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

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As an assistant, when you wake up in the morning, you're opening your laptop and watching film. Then the game starts, and you're watching it until you finally fall asleep.

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One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

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I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.

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I like to play aggressive, in general.

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They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

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I was in love with the triangle because it was so different to what everybody was doing in the NBA. Everybody else was dribbling down, throwing it into the low post, and then their guy would go to work. To me, it was boring.

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When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.

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My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

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Sometimes, I don't enjoy the wins, and I don't enjoy the losses, but I'm here just to get the result and get moving.

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